Experience This!

The March issue of Experience Life featured an article about mushrooms, which I got to illustrate! 

Since mushrooms are a topic near and dear to both my stomach, and my brain (not my heart, hopefully) I made a special animated gif for their website version, which you should be able to find on their website as soon as March rolls around. 

I've taken a shine to these animations, and will probably do more in the future.

Year End Round-Up!

This is the blog post where I publicly acknowledge that I am quite terrible at blogging, and that I missed a bunch of art and publications that I did.

First up, my work on the Honestly, Dara column for Experience Life, by way of fantastic AD Lydia Anderson, which I've not posted the last 5 times I've been published there. 

The Cure is in the Kitchen, September.

Tapas Party!, October

A Caloric Evolution, November

Consider the Raisin, December

I also am the proud creator of an emoji.  If you buy the Game of Thrones emoji pack from ...somewhere, you can be the proud user of the George R. R. Martin emoji, to pep up any sort of text or online conversation where such a thing would be applicable.  While I myself never use emojis, preferring to write out me emotional states longhand, this is available via the proud folks at Random House, AD David Stevenson.

And I can't forget the funnest job I've had all year, illustrating the poetry section of WHURK! magazine.  Since the magazine is free to read online, I can include the entire print page on my blog!  Ha ha, the future is great!

I even did the cover for the November issue, highlighting the Khan family a la American Gothic.

EAT YOUR CARROTS!!!

New piece in the new Experience Life magazine!
This one, as best as I can remember, is about how the author's children's guinea pigs eat healthier than her children, and if they teamed up, they could flank him!
Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson.

Honestly, Dara!

What we have here are the June and May illustrations for Experience Life's Honestly, Dara column.  Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson, and no ice cream for me for forgetting to post May's illustration when it was on stands!

In Praise of Pickling

There's a new Honestly Dara column up in Experience Life! magazine.  This one is in praise of something.  I forget what.

The Trouble With Trends

New in the March issue of Experience Life!  Food trends come and go like clockwork, but you can always count on them to show up overpricing something exotic.

Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson.

Dara Cooks Stuff!

New art from the January issue of Experience Life! magazine.  I'm going to be illustrating the monthly food column!  Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson.

Party Talk

Two pieces I did for Experience Life magazine, on navigating parties.  Call it a Field Guide, if you will.

I just did.

Included in this blog post, please find assorted sketches...

"All in the Family"

The latest from Experience Life magazine.  Connected to an article about how certain family members may not be quite as pleasant as you would hope they would be, for once, please Grandma, I know you only have a few more years to live, but that doesn't mean you have to spend your time making other people want to die too...  and how to deal with that.

Media Manners

A selection of my work in the newest issue of Experience Life magazine, for the article Media Manners, about things you should not do while using social media.

A New Blog Post

One might think that title is a bit redundant.  Not at all.  My work for Experience Life Magazine has been featured on Design Director Stepahnie Glaros's blog, seen HERE.  You can also link to it from my facebook page....HERE.